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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice. Race, Equity and Boston.

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Amplifying Female Voices: Strategies for Equitable and Inclusive Grantmaking

sgEngage

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. As part of their introspection, the Boston Women’s Fund also found that they weren’t hearing as much from younger women, and those who did participate felt that they were drowned out by the experiences of the older women. “If

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. EverTrue / Boston, MA / $300. HubSpot / Boston, MA / Less than $1,000. Governance / @usdsoles. CSR / #accp2016 / @accprof. Mar 20 - 22. Strategic.

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An ARG at the Smithsonian: Games, Collections, and Ghosts

Museum 2.0

While today is the official launch, Ghosts of a Chance had its "trailhead" (ARG-speak for a first entry point or teaser) at July's ARGFest in Boston, when a heavily-hennaed clue (see image ) crashed the conference and gave a whole new meaning to the term "marketing exposure" as applied to the Smithsonian. are frigging cool indeed.

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

Given all of the time commitment we were asked to put into the tag system onsite, I assumed that when we got home, we'd get some kind of personal profile that showed what we'd done, how it mapped to our profiles and our behavior relative to each other or other visitors to date. system, your image becomes part of a Flickr stream.

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The CyberYenta, Deborah Finn , recently had a successful pledge as follows: "I will smile and say "hello" to strangers I pass on the streets in my neighborhood but only if 50 residents of Boston, Massachusetts, USA will too." I will do this for free for a minimum of six months (in my free time).